Abstract Exploiting data on tens of millions housing transactions, we show that (1) house prices grew by less in manufacturing-heavy US regions, (2) this pattern is especially present for the lowest-value homes and (3) price declines coincided with worse labour market outcomes, consistent an income channel. Counterfactual accounting exercises reveal regional differences growth these are importa...

Racial discrimination pervades every aspect of a society in which it is found. It is found above all in attitudes of both races, but also in social relations, in intermarriage, in residential location, and, frequently, in legal barriers. It is also found in levels of economic accomplishment; that is, income, wages, prices paid, and credit extended. This economic dimension hardly appears in gene...

Essentialism and social constructionism theories have long explained the difficulties women experience as they aspire to higher managerial positions or enter science and technology fields. In the 1970s, the Women as Managers Scale (WAMS) sought to determine the extent to which males perceived females as being different from their social group. Given efforts to encourage women to consider IT car...

A continuous single-facility location problem, where the fixed cost (or installation cost) depends on the region where the new facility is located, is studied by mean of cooperative Game Theory tools. Core solutions are proposed for the total cost allocation problem. Sufficient conditions in order to have a nonempty core are given, then the Weber problem with regional fixed costs is studied.